The Cambridge encyclopedia of Darwin and evolutionary thought

"This volume is a comprehensive reference work on the life, labors and influence of the great evolutionist Charles Darwin. With more than sixty essays written by an international group representing the leading scholars in the field, this is the definitive work on Darwin. It covers the background to Darwin's discovery of the theory of evolution through natural selection, the work he produced and his contemporaries' reactions to it, and evaluates his influence on science in the 150 years since the publication of Origin of Species. It also explores the implications of Darwin's discoveries in religion, politics, gender, literature, culture, philosophy and medicine, critically evaluating Darwin's legacy. Fully illustrated and clearly written, it is suitable for scholars and students as well as the general reader. The wealth of information it provides about the history of evolutionary thought makes it a crucial resource for understanding the controversies that surround evolution today"--

1. Origins and the Greeks / Jeremy Kirby -- 2. Evolution before Darwin / Michael Ruse -- 3. Charles Darwin's geology : the root of his philosophy of the earth / David Norman -- 4. Looking back with "great satisfaction" on Charles Darwin's vertebrate paleontology / Paul D. Brinkman -- 5. The origins of the Origin : Darwin's first thoughts about the tree of life and natural selection, 1837-1839 / Jonathan Hodge -- 6. Darwin and taxonomy / Mary Pickard Winsor -- 7. Darwin and the barnacles / Marsha L. Richmond -- 8. The analogy between artificial and natural selection / Bert Theunissen -- 9. The Origin of species / Michael Ruse -- 10. Sexual selection / Richard A. Richards -- 11. Darwin and species / James Mallet -- 12. Darwin and heredity / Robert Olby -- 13. Darwin and time / Keith Bennett -- 14. Darwin's evolutionary botany / Richard Bellon -- 15. Mimicry and camouflage / William Kimler and Michael Ruse -- 16. Chance and design / John Beatty -- 17. Darwin and teleology / James G. Lennox -- 18. The evolution of the Origin (1859-1872) / Thierry Hoquet -- 19. Alfred Russell Wallace / John van Wyhe -- 20. Darwin and humans / Gregory Radick -- 21. Darwin and language / Stephen G. Alter…